Show HN: ClipJS – Edit your videos from a PC or phone (opens in new tab)

https://omniclip.app/ is another online video editor option that runs entirely in the browser (i.e. no video sent to an unknown server). Also open source.

I couldn't find your Privacy policy. What do you do with the videos uploaded? How do you store them, process them, 3rd parties? How do you monetize this? How is your approach/compliance to GDPR?

looks cool, love how there's no sign in required.

some feedback so far:

- allow me to drag + drop video clips to add them to the media section

- allow me to trim the beginning of a clip - right now i can only trim the end of a video clip

- allow me to drag the playhead (right now i can only click to move the playhead somewhere)

- make most of the text on the page be select-none - there were many times when i tried to drag something and it selected a bunch of text on the page

I have lot of large gopro videos (have a 4 year old with all 4 years of gopro videos), that I painstakingly have to edit when my 256 GB card fills up (currently I have 500GB of vodes sitting) . No matter how careful you are while recording it has some parts that needs to be trimmed out for saving space and also play time. As of now I use quickplayer loading single videos for each and every one and have to save them carefully. I have not found any app or tool that can efficiently just show me the files on a sidebar that I can select and edit using simple edit options like trim to remove unwanted parts in 3 to 10GB files. anyone know any tools that work. The tools suggested here did not even load these files :( 1. clipjs.vercel.app 2. https://pikimov.com/app/ 3. https://omniclip.app/

I will happily pay for this tool. AI to show me the part where there are no humans, I will pay more :) by ofcourse all locally and no cloud shenanigans. Of course people saying why record so much, why do we do anything ? :) try to be optimistic nihilist

Curious: why not set up a custom domain?

I got about 30% through making something very similar then moved on to another project. This is very nicely done.

It is worth noting that I did a lot of research in this space when I was working on my own video editor and there are a lot of these now (I have about 30 in a spreadsheet). Ever since there was a ffmpeg WASM port many people have made these web based editors. It is so cool we live in a time where that kind of powerful technology is freely usable by others to build these tools.

My angle was to add gen ai video as a first class feature. That might be something you want to investigate now that video gen apis are becoming more common.

It looks like I can only edit the first 30 seconds of my video, which is 23 minutes long? https://i.imgur.com/L39MS2r.png

Ever consider shipping this as an SDK that other apps can embed? This is something I’ve heard many people ask for.

incredible. the get started "+" icon and the github icon vectors were AI generated?

Perhaps add a screenshot to the landing page? The current "Ok, what does it look like?" path seems discouragingly long (landing page, Get Started, Add Project, name project, click on project).

This is remarkably good for a month-old project. I wish all apps could remain this snappy!

I don't like the auto-scrolling of the timeline when the red bar reaches the halfway point it's too jumpy.

Consider hosting some sample clips for people to play with.

Wow. I didn't know we could make video editors online now. Amazing job. I tried to do this so many times over the past 10 years, and it's a lot harder than it looks. But the "power" apps in this area are disproportionately too hard to use, and capcut and tiktok are easier but have their own major problems. Looking forward to using this! Also to reading the source!

Haven't even looked at this, but does this or similar webapps (saw some others posted in comments) make it easy to redact passwords or any other sensitive information in videos? I've explored some desktop tools (very cursorily tbf), and it always seems dreadfully complicated so I've never really even attempted beyond a half-assed effort. I really think there should be some tool that makes this point and click so that even a lazy half-asser can do it easily.

It would be good to add a default project to just test it out without uploading our own content.

Note that your buymeacoffe link is broken: https://buymeacoffee.com/mohyware

Congrats, this looks very easy to use!

I tried exporting, but it's quite slow and seems to be using CPU only. Shouldn't it use GPU for rendering?

Rendering...

Aborted() The progress bar is experimental in FFmpeg WASM, so it might appear slow or unresponsive even though the actual processing is not.

Love this, curious to see where it'll go. Would be amazing if we could move text around with the mouse.

hello, congratulations for clipjs, it's a nice idea but the performances are not good. there is no loading indicator and for a 10 mega file you have to wait a long time. Can I export the projects but also import? thanks

Would be good to see an option to upload lottie as remotion supports it.

@OP - Your buymeacoffee link 404s

uploaded a clip, pressed play on the timeline, but the preview wouldnt play

Incredible use of remotion.

Is it usable as a react or vue component?

Nice project !

I could have used this several weeks ago when all attempts to edit video (OpenShot & everything else I had installed) in Void Linux were temporarily thwarted until I realized an update had introduced incompatibilities with the GPU OpenGL/mesa driver slopstack.

I was able to wrest back some of my software by starting with

LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1

This forces CPU rendering through bypassing the intel GPU shitstack.

Or that's at least what I think happened. Took a loooong time to figure out.

Edit: I should include that part of the issue might be hamfisted aspects of the updates that penalize variable frame rates, which phone cameras use, and also comprises 100% of my videos. Still not sure though.

Nice Project !